The Woman Who Could Cradle Monsoons June 9th & more

Guess who’s back in town? Sarah McKinstry Brown. She wowed Albuquerque for years and we were lucky to have her in our poetry scene. Now she lives in Nebraska and it’s great she’s trekked back for a visit. If you are unfamiliar with her work from her time in Albuquerque, you are in for a treat. You’ll even have a chance to study with her if you desire–see below…

Winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize, Sarah McKinstry-Brown studied poetry at the University of New Mexico and the University of Sheffield, England. Published everywhere from West Virginia’s standardized tests to literary journals such as Chicago Quarterly Review, she earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Cradling Monsoons, is out with Blue Light Press. When she’s not reading, writing, or teaching, you can find Sarah in Omaha with her husband, the poet Matt Mason, and their two beautiful, feisty daughters.

I had a chance and honor to blurb her new book. Here’s what I wrote:

Heaven, the black keys on a grand piano! This collection pits tension between reality and desire, cultivating a world rich with lived imagination. In Sarah McKinstry-Brown’s grasp, language tackles the world of marriage, pregnancies and family with a complex love capable of cradling frustrations and grief with a patience that can ride through any monsoons and still trust there will be air to breathe soon enough.

I’m really intrigued by a series in her book on imaginary heavens, think it’s delightful and surprising and moving. I am hoping you’ll get a chance to catch one of her events.

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Lisa and Rich, I would like to add Duke City Dime Stories to your list of venues—it is a rare bird, I know, but it’s a prose open mic. Also, I think Fixed & Free at the Source every 4th Thursday should be in the list. Thanks, Merimee

The Source 1111 Carlisle Blvd. Se 87108
(DCDStories is every third Thursday)